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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
3
Martha helps at the county poor house with her siblings on Easter, meeting Cherry the singer and a dying mother. She comforts a child named Jennie, discovering a calling to care for the vulnerable, and later becomes a metropolitan hostess living by Christlike love.
A well dressed man opened an account with $9,000 using a letter of introduction. Later the same day he rushed to withdraw all funds before departing for New York. The clerk paid him in notes that proved to be forgeries, enabling the fraud.
An unnamed actor jokes about being out of work and needing many rolls to fill him. He realizes the quip lands as a test of the joke and sells it, putting the bit to the test.
Practical cleaning tips cover milk storage in shallow basins, cleaning clothes lines, washing baking tins with soda, comb care with a nail brush and damp cloth, knife cleaning with cork and knife powder, drying scrub brushes bristle-down, and brass cleaning using bathbrick paste or lemon juice with chalk.
The article describes two egg based breakfast options. One uses butter fried peas served with poached eggs on top. The other bakes hard boiled eggs with crusts of bread and layers of breadcrumbs, covered by a cream parsley sauce and browned breadcrumbs.
A woman finds table oilcloth makes a good floor covering when used over felt padding. It offers daintier patterns than standard kitchen oilcloth and can be kept clean with soapy water. Do not rub soap on the cloth. use a strong suds and wipe dry with a soft cloth.
Unbroken chilblains respond to rubbing with damp salt. Onions act as nerve tonics though color bias persists. A few grains of coffee burned on hot coals can purify a sick room odor. Do not wear bracelets too tight or too loose. Eating a small raw onion before bed may aid sleep as an effective nerve soother.
Melt butter then flour with salt pepper cayenne celery salt or onion juice. Add milk to make a cream, whisk in a beaten egg, then fold in a cup of chopped chicken meat. Serve on toast or with fried potatoes with optional lamb substitution.
A recipe notes mashed potato combined with butter onion juice cayenne and nutmeg plus eggs. Shape into apples, coat with cracker crumbs, fry until golden, then drain and insert clove stems for blossom ends and stems.
C. L. Wood of Fentress Norfolk Co Va suffered months of back pain kidney and bladder trouble with scanty or profuse secretions. After using Dean's Kidney Pills he passed a stone and soon remained free of kidney symptoms. Sold at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Claim that deafness stems from an inflamed Eustachian tube and can be cured only by constitutional remedies. Advertises Hal's Catarrh Cure with a $100 payable for any catarrh deafness case not cured, urges sending for circulars, notes Toledo seller and 75 cent price for Half's Family Pills.
A youth aged sixteen seeks theater tickets for two, telling his father he intends to take Mabel but clarifies the aim is not affection. He seeks the experience of dancing and social stages rather than a preferred partner.
A husband’s severe coffee habit caused illness to organs including his stomach and kidneys. After switching to Postum his health improved dramatically, headaches lessened, and his wife followed suit gaining weight and strength. She notes many misjudge Postum and recounts others changing their minds after trying it. The testimonial cites Postum Co. of Battle Creek Michigan and references The Road to Wellville in packages.
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